Re: How to test a manpage? ‘nroff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man’.

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Subject: Re: How to test a manpage? ‘nroff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man’.
From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:57:12 +0200
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Il 14/07/2010 6.50, Charles Plessy ha scritto:
> Does anybody know how a more convenient to display a
> manpage the same way as users will get it by using ‘man’ ?

groff -T ascii -man <manpage>
zcat /usr/share/man/manX/XXX | groff -T ascii -m man

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